It's all about lace and layers at Style by Becca

Jul. 18, 2013

Style by Becca is in a former potter's studio on Pendleton Street in the arts district.

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At 40, Rebecca Gordon-Pike looks as youthful as ever.

The owner of Style by Becca is wearing a sleeveless black and white patterned dress with platform wedges as she takes a break between clients at the boutique in Greenville’s arts district.

The shop used to be a potter’s studio, Gordon-Pike says, a tiny two-room space but exactly what she wanted after running a much larger store on Rutherford Road.

Chalkboard paint now covers the walls. Bird cages dangle from the ceiling. Sheer tops and polka-dot blouses spill from a vintage suitcase, and delicate lace dresses — some of them handmade by local designer Blue Moss — hang from flea-market dressers.

“I want to make people feel beautiful and happy, and I wanted it to be in a space with all my favorite things,” Gordon-Pike says.

Style by Becca opened in 2010 as a place where she could still be a hairstylist but also bring in the clothes that clients have always complimented her on.

Her own style is more bohemian — she’s a firm believer in layering — but there’s also an urban edge in the black and white prints she’s been wearing a lot of lately.

Right now her favorite pieces are the stackable rings shaped like LEGOs and the recycled leather bracelets she came across recently at the farmers market. Anything that has lace in it is a perennial favorite.

The philosophy here is about wearing what makes you feel good. A lot of women think lace and leggings have to be retired when they get to be a certain age, Gordon-Pike says, but that doesn’t have to happen.

As a personal shopper, she tells people that the secret is in layering pieces so they hit at the right length. “Sometimes I’ll have women that come in, and they say, ‘Oh, I can’t shop here, it’s too young,’ but I think that anything can be made age-appropriate,” she says.

Style by Becca has plenty of quirky accessories and other pick-me-ups that Gordon-Pike comes across in her travels and happily shares, one piece at a time.